Call it a pet peeve, or call it a personality quirk, but there’s one phenomenon that is really starting to get on my nerves: forcing foreign actors to cover up their accents when they are hired for Hollywood movies or TV shows. It’s time to let actors speak naturally, instead of oppressing them with evil Hollywood’s Midwestern dialect biases.

This is basically a great installment. There’s a plot twist. There’s suspense. There’s a cliffhanger. I don’t like the cliffhanger part, since I now have to find wait weeks to find out what happens next. But it’s good storytelling, that’s for sure.

Why is it that Tiger got in trouble for his co-ed adventures, but Dennis Rodman built an entire career on his? Why can other superstars avoid career threatening situations while Tiger walks blindly into them? What’s the secret they have learned that Tiger didn’t? The secret is Star Trek.

A crazy alien conspiracy theorist kidnaps one of the Kandorians along with Lois, and Clark and Zod both attempt rescue missions to varying degrees of success, with some extra results they probably didn’t expect.

Remember how one of my complaints regarding Smallville is that it is hit or miss? Some installments are awesome, while others are quite bad. This time, the producers outdid themselves. They hit the highs and lows of Smallville in the same episode! Do I like this ep? Do I hate it? I don’t know. I’m so confused.

There is one common ingredient among the truly great heroes of fiction. It’s that ingredient that makes us keep coming back, year after year, decade after decade, until they become true icons of the fictional landscape: the greatest heroes have the greatest villain pantheons.

After the previous week’s two-hour extravaganza “Absolute Justice,” I was expecting to be disappointed this week. But I wasn’t that disappointed. In fact, this week’s installment was a good old-fashioned decent story.

While the JSA is busy coming out of retirement, Chloe and Clark find old files pertaining to a person who is capable of controlling cold and ice. But they still think the JSA are villains, not heroes — will they be able to band together to stop the real bad guy?

Hold on to your seat, because this week’s episode of Smallville was the much anticipated two-hour extravaganza “Absolute Justice.” This review covers the first hour of the two-part special.

I am starting to think that fans of the novel will like this version. I am enjoying how different this format is from Blade Runner. The contrast between movie and graphic novel is fun, at least for me. I’m wondering if the novel presents yet another version of Deckart.